CCNet’s Benny Peiser passes along the following excerpt along from Der Speigel,’s English-language site, Spiegel having done some fairly alarmist work — along with some decent skeptical commentary — previously.

Not the End of the World as We Know It
“The apocalyptic mood seems to grow each time the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases a new section of its climate change report. Climate hysteria appears to be more contagious than a flu epidemic. “We only have 13 years left to save the earth,” screamed a recent front-page headline in the German tabloid Bild. “If mankind is unable to stop the greenhouse effect by the year 2020, it will bring about its own demise-and a horribly tortured one at that.” ….
A healthy dose of skepticism is a good idea, especially when scientists become all too confident and make themselves out to be oracles. But there can be a wide gap between their predictions and the end result-a fundamental weakness of all computer simulations that present only incomplete pictures of reality.